A current spike in environmental concern is barely higher than previous peaks
spending programme proposed by some Democrats, has been championed by left-leaning commentators and pilloried by conservatives. Despite a spate of wildfires and hurricanes, President Donald Trump pointed to January’s cold snap in the Midwest as evidence that warnings about climate change are overblown. Economiststhat global warming could knock 5% off America’s GDP by 2100, with particularly drastic effects in rural states that mostly supported Mr Trump.
published last week by Gallup found that 44% of the country worries “a great deal” about climate change, just below the record of 45% in 2017. Environmentalists might hope that Americans are gradually accepting the overwhelming scientific evidence regarding man-made global warming. But Gallup’s historical polling offers a more depressing picture.
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